Clothes catcher and drainer.



M. GRAAP.

CLOTHES GATGHER AND DRAINBR.

I APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1a, 1913.

Patented June 23, 1914 illlilllllll l I "Hill". I

ii'ncooeo PH cc.,wAsmNOTON D c MARGARET GRAAF, OF ESTHECRVILLE, IOWA.

CLOTHES CATCHER AND DRAIN Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 23, 1914.

Application filed March 13, 1913. Serial No. 754,055.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARGARET GRAAF, citizen of the United States, residing at Estherville, in the county of Emmet and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes Catchers and Drainers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to combined clothes catchers and drainers, and has as its object to provide a receptacle which may be readily and quickly applied to any ordinary wash boiler and which when applied will be in convenient position for the disposal therewithin of clothes removed from the boiler.

One aim of the invention is to provide means for supporting the receptacle upon a boiler in such manner that it may be carried about with the boiler and will not be liable to overturn the boiler when full of clothes.

Another aim of the invention is to pro vide, in a device of this class, a receptacle having means adapting it for attachment to a boiler, which means is also adapted to engage with a clothes line, whereby the receptacle may be supported upon the line while the clothes are being hung, the supporting or attaching means being so constructed as to permit of the receptacle being slid along the line aS clothes are removed therefrom.

Another aim of the invention is to provide a receptacle which, while adapted for attachment to an ordinary wash boiler, may, when detached, be used as an ordinary pan.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device embodying the present invention applied to a wash boiler. Fig. 2 is a Vertical sectional view through the device applied. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the drainer attachment for the receptacle. Fig. 4 is a similar view illustrating a slightly modified form of the device.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates a wash boiler of the ordinary construction and of a standard size, which boiler is provided at its upper edge with the usual bead 2.

The device embodying the invention consists essentially of a receptacle which is preferably substantially semi-cylindrical and includes a bottom 3, a semi-cylindrical wall 4 and a chordal or straight wall 5, which constitutes the back of the receptacle, the wall 4 comprising the front and sides thereof. For convenience in lifting and carrying the receptacle it is provided at the sides of its wall 4 with handles 6 which may be rigid, as shown in the drawing, or

pivoted in a manner similar to an ordinary bucket handle. As illustrated in the drawings the rear wall 5 of the receptacle extends in a vertical plane and in the preferred form of the invention this wall is overturned to form a depending flange 6 which is spaced from the major portion of the said wall. This construction is clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings and it will be observed that the line of fold forming the flange 6 is co-incident with the upper edge of the wall 4 so that the walls 4 and 5 are of the same height.

The supporting device for the receptacle is in the nature of a plate 7 which has its lower edge portion bent to form an upstanding flange 8 separated from the forward face of the plate and having its ends struck in to rest against the plate and indicated at 9. A pocket is in this manner formed at the lower edge of the plate, and is adapted to receive the flange 6, it being understood that the struck-in ends 9 of the flange 8 serve to prevent the flange 6 slipping out of engagement with the said flange 8. The upper edge portion of the plate 7 is bent over to form a depending flange 9 which, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, is engageable over the upper edge of the wall of the boiler 1. It will be understood, of course, that the flange 6 may be readily disengaged from the flange 8 and that also the flange 9 may be disengaged from the edge of the wall of the wash boiler so that the pan or receptacle may be employed directly in connection with the boiler, or upon detachment from the plate 8, may be employed in any of the numerous ways in which an ordinary pan is used. It will of course be understood that the boiler may be lifted, carrying with it the device embodying the present invention, although when the boiler is in use and clothes are being transferred from it to the receptacle the bottom 3 of the receptacle will rest on the stove upon which the boiler is disposed. While a drain attach- 10' which is formed of a number of transvers'ely extending slots 11, the plate being provided at its arcuate edge with a depending flange 12 which serves to support the plate in spaced relation to the bottom 3 of the receptacle when the drain device is disposed within the receptacle.

By reference to Figs. 1, 2 and 4, it will be apparent that the contour of the plate 10 is such as to adapt the drain device to fit snugly, although removably within the pan or receptacle. It will be understood that water draining from the articles of clothing placed upon the drain device will drain through the slots 11 and accumulate in the bottom of the receptacle, so that even should the receptacle be disposed directly upon the top of a stove, the clothes will not be scorched. In that form of the invention shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings the rear wall 5 of the receptacle is extended a considerable distance above the upper edge of the receptacle and at its upper end is bent over to form a depending flange 13 which i is engageable over the upper edge of the wash boiler in the same manner as the flange Copies of this patent may be obtained for 9 lt will be observed that the upwardly extended portion of. the rear wall 5, indicated at 14, occupies the same plane as the lower portion of the rear wall and that it seryes the same purpose as the plate 7, the

only difference being that it and the receptacle are not separable.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is 1. In a device of the class described, a receptacle, and attaching and supporting means therefor comprising an attaching plate provided at its upper end with an attaching flange and at its lower end with means detachably engageable with the wall of the receptacle.

2. In a device of the class described, a I

MARGARET GRAAF.

WVitnesses Mrs. CLYDE A. CUMMINGS, Mrs. G. H. RAIFE.

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